Gibbon, MN, USA
My wife and I were watching a beautiful lightning storm when we were walking our three dogs. Off to the left hand side of what had to b
Report quality: Moderate65/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-09-06
- Where
- Gibbon, MN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 44.534, -94.526 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-gibbon-mn-2015-4d19e3
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Gibbon, MN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 152 reports came from Minnesota in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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